IV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES

SPACES OF LAW Conference panels: Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13 Starting at 9am

Keynote Speaker Professor Daniel Aguirre-Oteiza,

Harvard University “Spanish Republican Exiles, National Literary

History, and Politics of Poetic Memory.”

Friday, April 12th 2019 9:00 am – 9:30 am Registration (Barker Center 114 – Kresge Foundation Room) 9:30 am – 10:00 am Welcome Address (Barker Center 114 – Kresge Foundation Room) José Manuel Martínez Sierra, Director of the Real Colegio Complutense David Yagüe González, Scientific Committee coordinator 10:00 am – 11:30 am PANEL 1: TRANSATLANTIC SPACES AFTER THE WALL (Emerson Hall 305) “Legal Walls, Illegal Migrations, and Precarity” Julio Ortega, Brown University “Against the Law: Flora Tristan and the Transatlantic Transgression” Pauline de Tholozany, Brown University “Looking at the revolution in Y Recuerda que te espero by Juan Carlos Méndez Guédes” María Fernanda Lander, Brown University 11:30 am – 1:00 pm PANEL 2: REHEARSING THE POLITICAL: CONSTITUENT AND DESTITUENT POWER (Emerson Hall 305) “Popular Surveillance and “Potenza Destituente” in CDRS: From the Cuban Revolution to the Catalan-Spanish Crisis” Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas, The Ohio State University “The Afterlives of Juan Donoso Cortés” Bécquer Seguín, Johns Hopkins University “The Aesthethic and Critiques of Weimar Democracy: The Counter and Complement to Carl Schmitt’s Political Myth” Peter Jin, Independent Scholar “The Construction of National Identity in Cuba: 1916-1940, A Postcolonial Adventure” Ariel Pérez Lazo, Miami-Dade College

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch break 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm PANEL 3: THE REGULATION OF TERRITORY AND ITS TRAVERSALS (Emerson Hall 305) “Involuntary Consent: Biometrics, Redaction and the Jurisgenerative Process” Christian Rossipal, NYU Tisch School of the Arts “Steaming Borders: Forcing the Law to Change with the First High Technology” John Laurence Busch, Independent Scholar “Civil War, Space, and Law” Hubert P. Van Tuyll, Augusta University 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm PANEL 4: BINDING LAWS: SLAVERY ACCOUNTS (Emerson Hall 305) “The Dutch Slave Law of 1776: Entanglement, Power Struggles and Ideological Conflicts during the Legislative Process” Julia Holzmann, University of Bremen “A Home Away from Home: Juan Francisco Manzano´s Autobiography of a Slave (1836)” Natalie Ramírez, Harvard University “The Precariousness of Slavery and Statehood in the Americas: Regulatory Legal Conflict and the Transatlantic Illicit Slave Trade” Jessica Fletcher, Vanderbilt University 5:00 – 6:30 pm (Real Colegio Complutense – 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge) Keynote Address: Daniel Aguirre Oteiza, Harvard University “Spanish Republican Exiles, National Literary History, and Politics of Poetic Memory” 6:30 pm (Real Colegio Complutense – 26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge) RECEPTION AT THE RCC

Saturday, April 13th 2017 9:00 am – 09:30 am Coffee (Boylston Hall 105) 9:30 am – 11:00 am PANEL 5: FIGURES OUTSIDE THE LAW: THE PÍCARO AND THE PIRATE (Boylston Hall 105) “Spaces of Law, Oceans of Crime: Piracy and the Construction of State Sovereignty in the Atlantic, 16th-19th Centuries” Olivier Barsalou, Université du Québec à Montréal Michael Hennessy Picard, Harvard Law School “‘Rinconete and Cortadillo’: Splittings and Declinations” Judit Palencia Gutiérrez, University of California, Riverside “‘Unmasking the Other’: The Relationship between the Pícaro and the Inquisitor in El Lazarillo and El Buscón” Benjamin R. Easton, University of Notre Dame 11:00 am – 1:00 pm PANEL 6: FROM THE PERIPHERY: RADICAL SPACES OF JUSTICE IN 21ST CENTURY LATIN AMERICA (Boylston Hall 105) “Discursive Political Acts by Feminist in The Anti-Feminicidal Movements in Mexico” Diana Aldrete, Trinity College “The Hyperbole of the Cynic: Rafael Acevedo’s Negative Scheme of Communality” Ilka Kressner, University at Albany “Democracy to Come: The Importance of Otherness in the Latin America Ways of Living” Gabriela Balcarce, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Conicet “Exploring the Idea of Reparations in Mesoamerica” Gloria Chacón, University of California, San Diego 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Lunch break

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm PANEL 7: GENDER AND THE SUBVERSION OF THE LAW (Boylston Hall 105) “Ethics of Care and Spaces of Subversion: The Convent as Radical Refuge in Entre Tinieblas” Sarah Thomas, Brown University “The Charade of Crimes Concealed” Rocio Pichon-Rivière, University of California, Riverside “Video Killed the Radio Star: How Refritos Failed to Portray the 21st Century Mexican Woman in the Nuevo Cine Mexicano” Paloma Serrano-Viñuelas, Texas A&M 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm PANEL 8: BEYOND GOVERNMENTALITY: POPULAR LEGAL CULTURES (Boylston Hall 105) “Spatial (In)justice in Alberto Rodríguez’s Grupo 7 (2011)” Mónica López Lerma, Reed College “Illicit Inscriptions: Maradona and Institutional Interruptions” Óscar A. Ulloa, University of California, Riverside “Queering the Private Eye. Transgressions and explorations of Nazario’s Anarcoma” David Yagüe González, Texas A&M